Our Weekend

Once again, we spent time working around the house this weekend.  Do you know how hard it is to get anything done with a 4 year old, two year old and one year old around?  I'm suprised when projects get done at all!  Mike was working on painting and we even put up our christmas decorations!  I ran some errands with Ava in tow.  It is so fun getting to spend one time with her, she is talking up a storm!  Here are some of the little conversations we had:

• Out of the blue she asked me "Who's your favorite grandpa?"  Uh, well I like Bo and Grandpap Bob.
• She announced I will tell you a story and then proceeded to ramble for about ten minutes about Princess Cinnamon and Princess Sugarhead.  Princess sugarhead likes to eat sugar, but Princess Cinnamon likes to eat chicken.  Go figure.
• At the dinner table she announced "We are going on a pink baby trip."  We have yet to figure out what exactly a pink baby trip is, but it does sound like fun.

  This morning we got dressed for church and dolled up more than normal because Carter was going to be singing in church.  So I decided to take a family picture:

By the way, those are the boy's christmas outfits.  Might as well get as much use out of them as possible, right?  Ava on the other hand has a myriad of dresses.  We were so lucky to be gifted an entire wardrobe by a friend, but then Ava refuses to wear any of it because she wants to wear a dress!  So I've had to scour second hand kid shops for  warm dresses to make my mornings a little easier.  This little girl loves to dress up!

Carter's singing performance went very smoothly this morning.  He sang two songs with his class.  At one point he looked over at us and raised his eyebrows in a little Shadle greeting.  Mike and I just looked at each other and started laughing.  Currently the kids are watching some football with Daddy, although who knows how long that will last!  Family, we can't wait to see you all this week.  Wednesday can't come soon enough!